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My Experiences With Book Bloggers (I Don’t Make This Stuff Up!)
This post isn’t about how important book bloggers are to authors and readers. There are plenty of articles to that effect, as well as really good resources to help you find bloggers to review your self-published books. A quick Google search and voila, you’ll be on your way.
This article is about my personal experiences with book bloggers —and as you will see, I couldn’t have made this stuff up if I’d tried — as well as why I don’t submit review requests to book bloggers anymore.
The First One
My first experience with a book blogger was in July 2012. How did this UK-based blogger come into my orbit?
Twitter. It’s always Twitter.
I think I was following an author that this blogger had reviewed on her blog and he’d retweeted her tweet about the review. I RT’d that tweet and followed her on Twitter. She followed back and RT’d one of my tweets. That tweet happened to be about my just-released-on-Smashwords novel, Chasing Pavements (now re-branded as Every Little Piece of You), Soulmates Saga #1. Though I publish directly on all the major e-book stores now, at that time, I used Smashwords to distribute to those retailers. Back then, it used to take a good couple of weeks for new releases to appear on iBooks…
